Ahmed Rushdi remembered on his 37th death anniversary

ISLAMABAD: Legendary Pakistani playback singer Ahmed Rushdi was remembered on his 37th death anniversary on Saturday.

Ahmed Rushdi recorded the highest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema in Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi Urdu, Gujarati and English languages. Rushdi recorded more than 5000 songs for 583 released films.

He is remembered by many as having lent voice to South Asia’s first ever pop song Ko Ko Korina filmed on Waheed Murad which is one of the most well known tunes in Pakistan’s history.

Among his feats are songs such as Gol Gappay Wala and Akeley Na Jana from the film Armaan which rivet the attention of people till this day. He was considered as a key contributor to the golden age of Pakistani film music.

Twenty years after his death he was awarded with Sitara-e-Imtiaz for his services to the field of music in 2003. Rushdi died of a heart attack at the age of 48 on 11 April 1983.